The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

'Worship' is the term we use to cover all the acts of the heart and mind and body that intentionally express the infinite worth of God. This is what we were created for, as God says in Isaiah 43:7, Everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory. That means that we were all created for the purpose of expressing the infinite worth of God's glory. We were created to worship.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul’s final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.